Jessica E. Davis Email & Phone Number

Nashville, TN, US

New York, NY, US

New York, NY, US

Lead Gannett’s AI governance efforts to ensure safe and responsible use of AI across the organization.

New York, NY, US

Created a roadmap for AI + automation news products that is forecast to deliver millions in new revenue by championing human in the loop workflows at scale. Contributed to creation of Generative AI standards for Gannett's News Division. Developed and implemented an AI training series for Gannett's journalists.

Mclean, VA, US

Designed and led a new team at USA TODAY to formulate engaging offerings through deep search research that contribute value to digital subscription business by growing databases and adoption of news automation tools.

US

Provide social media best practices and subscription growth strategy coaching to the Chinese Media Group. Poynter is a global leader in journalism and educates journalists worldwide.

New York, NY, US

Conceived and led digital optimization project that accelerated subscription growth for 260 local newsrooms and met the target milestone of 1.75 million digital subscribers. Established Search as #1 source of new subscriptions by applying artificial intelligence tools.

Founded Digital Optimization Team, creating Gannett’s first dispersed but centralized team that worked across the nation. The pilot model accelerated audience and subscription growth for 72 newsrooms and was later rolled out to all Gannett local markets.

New York, NY, US

Led centralization of the digital resources of six Tennessee newsrooms, leading to year-over-year growth for all markets for more than three years. Working within the changing structure, news teams produced award-winning local news coverage and a lauded community civility project.

Woodland Hills, CA, US

Pioneered content and platform strategies for nine Southern California publications which saw 300% growth year over year in video views and revenue.

Launched a video news service for City News Service, a regional wire service for Southern California media. Managed a team of two videographers to produce video content and audio content daily that aired on Los Angeles TV and radio broadcasts.

New York, NY, US

Launched first Patch website in Palm Springs, then led Malibu Patch to profitability after just two years. Patch is American news and information platform with community sites developed by local editors, writers, visual journalists, and sales professionals.

Wrote wire copy for TV, radio, print and online Southern California media.

Transformed weekly, award-winning newspaper into website that published content daily. Led a group of eight to 12 reporters and collaborated with news team to produce multimedia and online packages.

Interned as a full-time general assignment reporter, wrote multiple stories daily, took photographs for online and print publication and contributed multimedia and story ideas. Developed strategy and launched a special news section called “Off 68,” which continues to thrive.

Ba, Journalism And History

B.A., Journalism And History